Endgame, Part II

This article is about the Animated episode. For the Beast Machines episode, see Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall.

« Transformers Animated ep 42
"Endgame, Part II"
Airdate	May 23, 2009
Written by	Marsha Griffin
Directed by	Kalvin Lee Yoshio Frank Chatani

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans	Others
Jazz (4) Bumblebee (5) Prowl (6) Ratchet (7) Optimus Prime (8) Bulkhead (9) Omega Supreme (11) Arcee (13) Freeway (18) Seaspray (19 Cosmos (20) Powerglide (21) Hubcap (22) Sedan (23) Sentinel Prime (24) Furao (25) Warpath (26) Carerra (27) Cliffjumper (28) Sky Garry (29) Dai Atlas (30) Red Alert (31) Mainframe (32)	Three Lugnut Supremes (1–3) Megatron (10) Lugnut (12) Shockwave/Longarm Prime (14) Starscream (17)	Isaac Sumdac (16)	Sari Sumdac (15)

Quotes

Megatron: Lugnut, lets begin this field test with Sumdac Tower. I want to see my former prison crumble to the ground.
Lugnut: As you command, oh great and glorious Megatron! Your genius exceeds all others! And I am but your humble and obedient servant! Furthermore--
Megatron: Shockwave! Is there anyway to bypass this endless pontificating and command these clones directly?
Shockwave: Still working on the datapatch, my liege. Until then, you'll just have to relay all. Orders. Through. Lugnut.

—Megatron desperately seeks to cut out the middleman, while Shockwave demonstrates how to smirk without a face.

Sari: "I'm going too! I have a jetpack."
Optimus: "No Sari, it's-"
Sari: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's 'too dangerous', I know. It's always 'too dangerous'!"
Optimus: "I was going to say, 'It's more important for you to protect your father and your fellow organics'."
Sari: "Oh. Right. Sorry."

-Sari isn't used to being treated as an equal.

"You're a persistent little Autobot."
"My name is OPTIMUS PRIME!"

—Megatron and Optimus Prime

"If I can't save my clones I will at least have the satisfaction of taking you off-line Optimus Prime"
"So you can remember my name!"

—Took you long enough Megatron.

Notes

Transformers references

• At the very end, Optimus Prime is shown wearing the large piece of AllSpark which Jazz and Prowl pulled together on a chain around his neck, in a container resembling the Matrix of Leadership.

• Even at this late stage, new faces still appear in the crowd scene on Cybertron. Seaspray can be seen from the rear, albeit slightly miscolored, while yet another robot with the Bumblebee body-type (this one yellow, and with a helmet based upon the original Generation 1 Bumblebee toy) appears prominently as everyone reacts to Omega Supreme's transformation. Dai Atlas and Sky Garry make their first in-person appearances, though Dai Atlas only appears from behind, and the unnamed blue and tan female from "This Is Why I Hate Machines" also appears again. Here, she is standing next to another unnamed, orangle female, whose arm could juuuuuust be seen poking in from offscreen back in "Decepticon Air".

Real-world references

• Ratchet refers to the Lugnut Supremes as "knockoffs".

Trivia

• As of this episode, there's a lot of Decepticons unaccounted for!
  • Thundercracker and Skywarp are still floating out somewhere in space.
  • Blackarachnia and a bleeding, shattered Waspinator are still on that unidentified Earth-like planet.
  • Laserbeak fled the scene with the sentient part of Soundwave in "Human Error, Part II".
  • Scrapper presumably returned to Dinobot Island with Snarl after "Human Error".
  • Swindle left for parts unknown in "Decepticon Air".
  • Lockdown, the Female Starscream, Team Chaar and any unseen Decepticons all remain at large.
  • Mixmaster and Dirt Boss may or may not have been destroyed in the explosion in "Three's a Crowd".

• This is the first episode since "Megatron Rising - Part 2" to feature Prime's faceplate.